Re-imagine: Ravel and Beethoven

This recital features a dialogue between today’s hottest composers and music of Ravel and Beethoven. Paola Prestini, Timo Andres, Billy Child respond individually to each of the pieces in Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit. Additionally, 6 UCLA composers, including Richard Danielpour, Tamir Hendelman, Peter Golub, Mark Carlson, David Lefkowitz and Ian Krouse, create responses to Beethoven’s mystical Bagatelles opus 126. Subsenquently, the program alternates between the Ravel, Beethoven, and responses to them by today’s most resonant composers.